Charlie Sheen’s "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option Tour" has got mixed response so far as it was badly panned in Detroit but received standing ovation in Chicago, but the actor can’t enjoy his success as there are reports that brokers and ticket holders are selling tickets for the show at bargain basement prices.
Joellen Ferrer, a spokeswoman for StubHub, an online ticket re-seller, said Ticketmasters' initial ticket offering the second week of March sold out like hotcakes at all 20 tour stops. Ferrer added that ticket holders were demanding an average of $150 a ticket on StubHub for upcoming New York City shows of the actor at Radio City Music Hall.
But when Sheen was booed in Detroit, average prices for those same shows had dropped by more than half to $60 or $70. "Last week, the cheapest ticket was $66," Ferrer said. "Today, comparable seats are $25. It's very telling of where the market has gone." It seems that the Two and a Half Men star who is set to take the stage in Cleveland tonight is set to lose in the long run. "Got nothing to do with us," Sheen's rep Larry Solters told ABCNews.com.
Pointing out the difference between scalped tickets and box office sales, Solters told Billboard, "A ticket sold is a ticket sold, whether it's from Ticketmaster, CharlieSheen.com or the box office. Where they go after that, frankly we don't know. We all know a re-seller will often post their tickets to multiple sites to promote their product. It might be on multiple sites for the same ticket."
